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Rural Novels Set in the 1960s and 1970s 六七十年代的乡村小说

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  1. 451 The Capitalist-Era Educated Youth Is Highly Enlightened, Winning Big by Serving the Nation 资本知青觉悟高,为国效力赢麻了 Modern Romance994k WordsCompleted [1970s + transmigrate into a book + military marriage + special abilities + love after marriage + devoted husband + family life + joining the army + building wealth] Su Mo, a dual-ability user, discovered that she had transmigrated into a book. She'd become the cannon-fodder character who gave the heroine her start-up funds, and she was supposed to die right from the start. Even after dying, she'd be dragged out of the heroine's memories again and again to serve as a foil, with the destruction o 75.3kReads9.3Score7.6kShelves
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  2. 452 Sha Gen Isn't Foolish at All 傻根一点也不傻 Urban1.3M WordsOngoing After his father and eldest brother die, his mother goes mad and soon passes away as well. All that remains is Shagen, a mentally challenged young man. His beautiful sister-in-law, Pan Yuting, still takes on the responsibility of caring for him. To keep the Li family line from ending, Pan Yuting secretly makes up her mind... She won't leave. She'll work hard together with Shagen...! Part Two: Overseas Development. The Xingdao forces gradually rise... They discover an ancient race among the ruins 638Reads6.8Score102Shelves
  3. 453 A Woman's Strength Holds Up the Sky 弱女子撑起一片天 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Born on the Qixi Festival in a desolate earthen cave, she has a stubborn, unyielding spirit. An unexpected encounter leads her to the love of her life, though it turns out their meeting was destined by an arranged childhood betrothal. Her in-laws favor sons and look on coldly as she struggles, but each time adversity strikes, she rises from the ashes reborn. Should she endure and forgive? What will humanity and hardship reveal? She chooses to be strong, and her selfless, uncomplaining devotion b 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  4. 454 Laibao 来宝 Urban314k WordsCompleted Zhang Laibao is the only girl in the Zhang family of Wangshan Village. Her parents, grandparents, and four older brothers dote on and protect her as she grows up carefree, innocent, lively, adorable, and clever. Then, at the age of six, she meets a mute boy, the man who will make her heart skip, ache, and break for the rest of her life! He has crossed time and space from the previous century, following her for the sake of their love in a former life...! Together, they embark on a poignant, earth 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. 455 The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines 132.8kReads9.6Score14.3kShelves
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  6. 456 My Father's Era of the Fortress Villages 父亲的崮时代 Urban299k WordsCompleted Yimeng Mountain is a work of documentary fiction about the second generation of military-industry workers, telling the true story of the mysterious “Third Front” military factories. It retraces how the children of Third Front workers and their parents pressed on through successive waves of change. “Good people and good horses head to the Third Front.” The companies were reorganized and moved out of the mountains... They rose from the ashes as a red-culture base, as the home of China’s peaches, a 10Reads6.9Score—Shelves
  7. 457 Back to 1973: I Have a Sign-In System 重回1973,我有签到系统 Urban871k WordsOngoing A wage slave among wage slaves was summoned to work overtime in the middle of the night. On his way home at dawn, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse sent him back to the fervent era. Armed with an incomplete cultivation sign-in System, let's see how he makes his mark in those turbulent times. 14.6kReads6.8Score974Shelves
  8. 458 Back to the Late 1970s, I Have a Choice System 重回70年代末,我有选择系统 Urban766k WordsCompleted A modern food-delivery rider was hit by a heavy truck while saving someone and sent back to the 1970s, reborn as an educated youth about to take the college entrance exam. Ding! The choice System has been activated. A choice has been triggered. Choice One: Take the college entrance exam? No way. You can return to the city freely in a year, so stay in the village for another year. Reward: Become the village secretary's live-in son-in-law. Choice Two: The college entrance exam is the only way to c 20.4kReads7.0Score1.2kShelves
  9. 459 Reborn in 1974: I Take My Space with Me to the Countryside 重生1974年,我带空间去下乡 Urban642k WordsCompleted Li Feng, a wage slave working a 996 schedule, accidentally activated the pocket dimension in the jade pendant his grandfather left him before he died. As a devoted fan of web novels on Tomato, how could he not know what opportunity was coming his way? “Grandpa! Bless your grandson with a chance to transmigrate to an awesome world. I’ll make sure our Li family has plenty of descendants.” The newly unemployed wage slave gathered what little money he had and stockpiled some supplies. Now he waits f 20.5kReads7.8Score958Shelves
  10. 460 I Make Paper Offerings in a Period Novel 我在年代文里做纸扎 Urban6.7M WordsCompleted Li Hongwen transmigrates into a book, landing in a period novel about a wicked supporting female character’s rise to power. The heroine has a pocket dimension, and the villainess has a supermarket. All he has is the paper-offering craft he learned in his previous life, but that trade is taboo in this era!!! Luckily, a skill from his previous life that he never got to use works in this world. And so, an unremarkable supporting male character who knows the plot appears, much to the villainess’s su 35kReads7.6Score2.4kShelves
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  11. 461 A Post-Apocalyptic Big Shot Makes It in the Seventies 末世大佬混七零 Urban448k WordsCompleted Male POV, no CP If you want a better life, you have to work hard, and then work even harder. Tang Jihai died in the apocalypse, then transmigrated into the main villain of Reborn in the Seventies: A Wonderful Life. A villain with a tragic ending? A villain who gets demoted as soon as he meets the female lead? A villain who does every evil deed imaginable, only to be dealt with by the hero and heroine together? Tang Jihai clicked his tongue. “Screw it, let's do this!” It's just that the hero and 2.1kReads8.5Score108Shelves
  12. 462 The Growth of a Dust Flower 尘埃花成长记 Modern Romance318k WordsCompleted As a child, Yuemei watched her parents die cruelly right before her eyes. Yet she still had to show filial devotion to the person who had caused her father’s death… At just ten years old, Yuemei carried her baby sister, who was crying from hunger, out into the night to find milk for her… After barely making it through a childhood of hardship, she faced another blow at seventeen: her younger sister, Yueru, was sold to a bathhouse… What will become of the sisters? Read on to find out. Please be 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  13. 463 A Sweet Wedding Night in the 1970s: Even an Arranged Marriage Can Be Wonderful! 七零新婚夜,包办婚姻也很甜! Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed Military Marriage Romance] [Beautiful, Sweet-Talking Wife + Gentle, Healing, Rugged Husband] She wakes up on the night of her arranged wedding in the 1970s. Her husband is a handsome, idealistic man with impeccable credentials. Should she marry him or not? Lin Qingya soon decides she’s glad she did. Her rugged husband is surprisingly sweet! The heroine is career-focused, clear-headed, and sensible. The hero dotes on his wife and is gentle and reassuring. Sweet romance throughout, no 8.5kReads9.1Score761Shelves
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  14. 464 Back to the 1980s: Life Is Sweet with a Retired Soldier Uncle at My Side 重回八零:背靠退伍大叔好乘凉 Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted In her previous life, Zhao Weilan became a stepmother and ended up dying after a long, miserable life. In this life, she returns to the day she married the scumbag. She calls off the wedding on the spot and marries his heroic uncle instead. Everyone laughs at her: one man is mute and lame, and the other is a weak little woman who can't fight a chicken. Their life together is doomed to fall apart sooner or later. But Zhao Weilan diligently studies medicine to save her husband. She becomes a renow 940Reads8.8Score193Shelves
  15. 465 Transmigrate to the 1960s and Keep Busy Growing Vegetables on the Island 穿越六零,海岛种菜忙 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Period]+ [military marriage]+ [Transmigration]+ [no storage space]+ [superhuman strength]+ [building a career] In 2023, swimmer Jiang Jiaojiao and her teammates are on a team-building trip at the seaside. While trying to save a child who has fallen into the water, she is swept away by a huge wave. In 1964, Lin Baoni jumps into the sea to save a People’s Liberation Army soldier in distress. A huge wave carries her away, and she eventually dies of exhaustion. Reborn in Lin Baoni’s body, Jiang Jia 20.3kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
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  16. 466 The 1960s: The Little Kid Who Gave the Heroine a Space Is Done with It 六零,送女主空间的小崽崽不干了 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted When she opens her eyes, Miao Qing has become a random supporting character in a period novel. The scene is about to shower the heroine with gifts and hand her a golden finger, but Miao Qing kicks off a life completely different from the plot with a loud, piercing wail. Who would have guessed that after she'd just finished training her underlings, Miao Qing would suddenly learn that the commune she's in is called Hongqi Commune, with Qingshan Brigade, Hongxing Brigade, and Kaoshantun Brigade nea 12.5kReads8.9Score1kShelves
  17. 467 Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人?不如成全自己 Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her. 143.5kReads9.5Score10.7kShelves
  18. 468 A Love Story in Chaoshan 潮汕情事 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted In the old homes of Chaoshan lie the wildest lives and the warmest hearts. In the 1970s and 80s, a group of Chaoshan people who refused to give up fought their way through poverty, loved through storms, and lived by the bonds between people. Some dared to fight and forge ahead, dragging their lives up out of the mud. Others were loyal and true, unwilling to betray anyone even when it cost them. Love brought tangled relationships, family brought its share of strain, and neighbors argued, but when 627Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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  19. 469 A Golden Marriage 金婚 Modern Romance442k WordsCompleted One is a fool in everyone's eyes, the other a young hoodlum in the village's eyes. Yet fate ties them together. Zhou Xing always thought himself above others, but never imagined he'd marry a fool and fill a whole house with children, boys and girls alike. What's more, in this life and the next, and the life after that, he only wants to be with her. At first, Li Zhi'an was terrified of living under the same roof as Zhou Xing, that bad man. Gradually, she came to accept him. In the end, she decide 23.4kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
  20. 470 The Abandoned Wife Xiumi: Painting Smiles with Tears 弃妇秀米:蘸着眼泪画笑容 Modern Romance547k WordsCompleted Xiumi's story is based on the true story of my neighbor's mother and was adapted with her permission. At seventeen, Xiumi became an abandoned wife just six months after getting married. Her husband ran away with someone else, and Xiumi gave birth to his child. Decades later, Xiumi had seen her parents-in-law off and raised her daughter. Her daughter was studying for a master's degree in Shanghai, while Xiumi remained in the old house until her husband returned... But after coming back, her husba 93Reads—Score—Shelves
  21. 471 Train-Hopping Chronicles 爬火车记 Urban292k WordsCompleted Synopsis of "Riding the Train": A Tuo, A Hua, and A Chao are three children who move with their families to a small mountain ravine called Huajiang. Living amid the mountains, by the river, and in the forest, the children grow up happily in the peaceful natural surroundings. Along the way, their families and educated youth friends teach them how to hop freight trains. One day, while riding a train to a nearby small city to buy popsicles, they are robbed by local thugs. After a fight, the police —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  22. 472 I Transmigrate into Siheyuan and Become the Big Villain 穿越四合院我成了大反派 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the courtyard world, he awakens the Villain Development System right away. As the son of a powerful senior official, he comes from a distinguished family and has influence everywhere. Sorry, gentlemen, but from now on, this courtyard answers to me! The protagonist has the spirit of Wei Wu and the bearing of a prime minister. There are multiple heroines, including Qin Huairu. After about 250,000 words, the story starts weaving in the plot of Under the Zhengyang Gate, and 142Reads8.2Score—Shelves
  23. 473 The God of Gambling: Tales of Siam 赌神:暹罗风云录 Historical123k WordsCompleted He was known as Thailand’s “Huang Jinrong.” Under his leadership, Thailand’s Hongmen Society became famous throughout Southeast Asia. He funded Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary cause, and Sun called him “the pillar supporting Mr. Sun’s cause.” He became sworn brothers not only with Sun Yat-sen, despite the difference in their ages, but also with Rama V of Siam. He was made an earl and granted the Siamese royal surname. A road in Bangkok bears his name, as does Siam’s first Chinese-style mansion. His 111Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 474 Ten Years in the Township 乡镇十年 Urban364k WordsCompleted Told in serial form, this story follows the career and personal growth of Liu Rong, a veteran working in a remote township in northwest China. Through a series of incidents, it depicts the realities of township work at the start of this century, along with the rapid economic, cultural, and social changes of the time. 20Reads6.6Score—Shelves
  25. 475 Siheyuan: Teaching Qin Huairu to Stand on Her Own Two Feet 四合院:教秦淮茹自力更生 Male-Channel Fanfiction211k WordsCompleted He Yuzhu was drinking and grilling skewers with a college classmate he hadn’t seen in years. When he woke up, he discovered he had transmigrated into the body of He Yuzhu from Birds All Over the Courtyard. Before long, Jia Dongxu died on duty. First Uncle: “Zhuzi, bring Qin Huairu some leftovers from the canteen!” He Yuzhu: “No way. Taking public property is against the law. We can’t undermine socialism. First Uncle, don’t get me in trouble!” Qin Huairu: “Zhuzi, look at me, raising an old man an 50Reads5.2Score—Shelves
  26. 476 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Keep Watch for Qin Huairu 四合院:开局给秦淮茹把风 Male-Channel Fanfiction150k WordsCompleted [From the start + Reborn + System + Period setting + Invincible] Li Weiguo transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and, from the start, Qin Huairu begs him to keep watch while she takes a bath. What a “nice” opportunity! Fine, he'll keep watch, and even help catch a mouse for free! He pushes the door open and firmly refuses Qin Huairu's special request, leaving her with nothing to show for her efforts. A divine space appears. Its magical black soil makes crops ripen instantly, and its chicken a 942Reads5.9Score—Shelves
  27. 477 The Town Leader 镇领导 Urban652k WordsCompleted The sky over Dashan Town has fallen. The Party secretary died unexpectedly, leaving behind a funding black hole worth billions. Town Mayor Gao Yuanxing is pushed into the spotlight, with every step he takes bringing him to the edge of a cliff. But the real hunter is his deputy, the man who calls him brother: Jia Haoran. He rides on Gao Yuanxing’s “achievements” to climb to power, manipulating events as he pleases and enjoying every minute of it. Watching the people’s hard-earned money being squa 3.7kReads7.6Score259Shelves
  28. 478 My Escape from the Mountain Village 逃离山村的经历 Modern Romance804k WordsCompleted [A realistic story of an ordinary country boy’s inspiring growth + not overpowered + no transmigration + no System] This is a tearjerker to follow in the tradition of “Mom, Love Me Once More,” another heart-wrenching story guaranteed to bring you to tears. If you cry easily, don’t read it, because I’m afraid you’ll end up sobbing. Lingling loses both her parents when she is little. All she has left is a brother five or six years older than her and an elderly grandmother. Unable to bear the pain 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. 479 Smiling as I Ask the Pagoda Tree About the Past 笑向槐花问前事 Modern Romance742k WordsCompleted (Sweet romance in the 1970s, cherished by everyone, educated youth sent to the countryside, traditional family medicine, special missions, upright values, deep love for the country and its people, childhood sweethearts, brothers who watch each other's backs, a golden finger used only for survival and convenience, viewed from the sidelines, not a strong female lead) A pair of watches became her space train car. After waking from a dream with seven days' worth of hazy memory fragments, she headed 843Reads9.1Score104Shelves
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  30. 480 The Brilliant Scientist Who Ran Away from Both Her Wedding and Her Marriage 科研一枝花逃婚又逃嫁 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (A period novel with no golden finger for scientific research, a top-tier intellect and a clear, rational mind; strengthening the nation and its military through mathematics, founding a research institute; the heroine is a soldier's wife, beloved for her own achievements, with a happy, harmonious relationship) Period setting + humorous everyday life + academic star + strengthening the nation through mathematical research + counterespionage + no space, no System, no golden finger + highly intelli 6.2kReads9.2Score707Shelves
  31. 481 Leaving on the Journey South 南下归途离开 Urban371k WordsCompleted Every so often, a generation leaves home to make a living, leaving its youth behind on construction sites and streets far from home. Our fathers left the mountains with worn-out woven-plastic bags on their backs, heading south to find work. They knew nothing of polished talk. They only knew to keep their heads down and work hard, relying on brute strength to feed their families. They lived in cramped shacks, endured grueling day and night shifts, and swallowed their homesickness and grievances. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
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  32. 482 After Abandoning Her Husband and Child, She's Targeted Again by Her Officer Ex-Husband 抛夫弃子后,被军官前夫再次盯上 Modern Romance668k WordsCompleted [The 1960s + Spirit-Spring Space + Beautiful, Alluring Military Doctor + Love Grows Over Time + The Ex-Wife Chase] After her memories awakened, Jiang Wan discovered she'd become the male lead's tragic first wife. According to the plot, she would have to deal with a troublemaking mother-in-law, a husband whose heart belonged to someone else, a son who wanted another woman to be his mother, and a delicate widowed foster sister who was pregnant with her husband's child. They would all keep bullying 11.2kReads8.4Score907Shelves
  33. 483 Childhood: Run! Your Mom's Coming with a Stick! 童年:快跑,你妈拿棍棍来了 Urban783k WordsCompleted [PS: A gender-swap story where the male protagonist turns into a girl; the protagonist doesn't grow up; no career-building; childhood memories of those born in the 1980s and 1990s; the protagonist laughs and cries; pure childhood hijinks] Everyone thought I was poking an electrical outlet with a piece of wire. I got beaten. Waaah! I got into a fight with a rooster and ended up with a mouthful of feathers. I got beaten. Waaah! I fell out of a plum tree. I said I was fine, but got beaten anyway. W 3.1kReads8.7Score249Shelves
  34. 484 My Old Home Connects to the Modern World: A Village Girl's 1970s Office-Worker Life 老宅通现代:七零村花的社畜日常 Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [From the 1970s to the modern day] Chen Qiaoyu, born and raised in the 1970s, has been feeling a little panicked lately. She and her younger brother were driven out by their father and stepmother, sent to live in the dilapidated old Chen family home with only two threadbare quilts. Who could have guessed that the crumbling old house hid a passage to another era? [From then on, Chen Qiaoyu begins traveling back and forth between the 1970s and the modern day every day] The villagers of Yaojia Vil 12.2kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
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  35. 485 The 1970s: After the Breakup, I Marry My Ex's Uncle 七零:分手后,我改嫁前对象小叔 Modern Romance585k WordsCompleted (Period setting + pocket dimension + marriage first, love later + face-slapping scum + sweet romance + family life) Heroine: Speaks her mind, fierce and sharp-tongued, and never afraid to speak up or throw a punch. Hero: Speaks, but says little. Dotes on his wife, does whatever she says, and is cold on the outside but warm-hearted underneath. (Romance takes a back seat, but when it’s there, he dotes on her nonstop.) Su Manman, a space-wielding esper from the apocalypse, died in a battle against 7.6kReads8.5Score675Shelves
  36. 486 Back in the 1980s, Starting My Career Anew 回归八零再就业 Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted While everyone else who transmigrates gets to live another life, Qi Xinlan loses twenty years of hers! One moment she's a thriving, ambitious administrative director at a multinational corporation; the next, she's a fifty-two-year-old woman. This is the bittersweet story of how the white-collar elite Cindy Qi became Auntie Qi to her neighbors. Her most promising son is gone, her daughter-in-law has run off, and a whole bunch of little children are left behind! See how a modern HR and administrat 18.3kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
  37. 487 This Is Awesome! I Transmigrated 太爽了!穿越 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The heroine, Wu Yanrong, is a concubine-born daughter of the ancient Mingyue Manor. Although her family is a martial arts clan, her fate was decided from the moment she was born because her mother was of humble origins. She learned a few basic martial arts to keep fit, but was mainly expected to learn needlework and embroidery, as well as reading and bookkeeping. The idea was to make concubine-born daughters like her more valuable when it came time to marry them off for political alliances. Unf 2.1kReads9.0Score251Shelves
  38. 488 An Ordinary Downcountry Life in the Seventies 七零平凡的下乡生活 Modern Romance305k WordsCompleted Period novels these days all seem to follow similar plot formulas, but this story feels more grounded and relies less on familiar tropes. Lu Qiuping transmigrates in her sleep into the body of a young sent-down intellectual who dies as soon as she arrives in the countryside. The original owner was the third child in a family of two working parents in the city. Middle children are often overlooked, neither loved by their fathers nor cherished by their mothers. She had it even worse, growing up wi 897Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  39. 489 An Ordinary Life for a Girl Born in the Eighties 八零后女孩的平凡人生 Modern Romance490k WordsCompleted [No transmigration] [No rebirth] [No golden finger] [Rural life in the 1980s] [A small ensemble cast] [Family squabbles] [Gentle and heartwarming] Xu Congcong and Xu Mingming are sisters born in the 1980s. They are lucky to have a grandma and father who love them unconditionally, as well as a mother whose personality is a little complicated but who loves them just as much. Sheltered by their whole family, the sisters grow up carefree. Through the sisters’ coming-of-age story, this novel traces t 3.7kReads9.2Score301Shelves
  40. 490 Stories from the Rice Fields: Rural Life in the 1970s 稻香里的故事:70年代农村生活 Urban211k WordsCompleted There's no transmigration, no pocket dimension, and no golden finger, just ordinary country life. The protagonist, Zhao Yilin, is the third child in his family. He has two older sisters. One ordinary morning, his second sister comes home, turning the family's life upside down. It turns out her husband has someone else. She wants a divorce, but because of her two children, she gives in after their parents talk her into it. The matter should have ended there, but in the end they still get divorced 110Reads—Score—Shelves
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  41. 491 The Wife Heaven Sent Me 老天送来的穿越老婆 Modern Romance366k WordsCompleted No special powers, just an ordinary person living an ordinary life! In her previous life, Zhang Xiaoyan spent all her time chasing after Wang Xiaofeng, a sent-down youth. In the end, she got her wish and married him. She eventually returned to the city with him, only to spend her entire life as his family's maid. Their home in the countryside was full of troubles, too. Even her son and daughter despised her before she died. Reborn, she didn't want to go through that miserable life again, so she 62Reads8.2Score—Shelves
  42. 492 The Qinling Mountain Herb Gatherer 秦岭采药人 Urban1.0M WordsCompleted After graduating from junior high in the 1990s, rural boy Huang Yang was admitted to the Sanqin Forestry School, a thousand miles from home. His family was poor, so he studied while going into the mountains to gather medicinal herbs and earn money. After obtaining a mysterious jade-bamboo-root pendant, he embarked on a life of extraordinary good fortune. He opened plantations and a tourism company, leading his fellow villagers to prosperity… Urban life, miracle doctor, fighting villains, farming 7.2kReads9.1Score864Shelves
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  43. 493 When the Rice Flowers Bloom 稻香花开 Modern Romance368k WordsCompleted The novel follows the hardships endured by farmers in two villages in Xiangnan County, Dongyuantun and Da’ai Village, from the Republican era through the founding of the People’s Republic of China and on through the people’s commune system, the Cultural Revolution, the household responsibility system, and the Reform and Opening-Up period. The villagers endure one hardship after another and witness the changing times. The protagonists, Zhang Yiping and Zhou Xueyun, are forced to leave school beca 214Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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  44. 494 Secrets in the Backyard 后院的秘密 Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Lin Feng stumbles upon a woman hidden in the village chief’s backyard. Determined to uncover the truth, he painstakingly pieces the clues together, only to discover that behind it all lies a truth he cannot accept... 15.8kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves
  45. 495 Reborn in 1977, I Marry the Girl of My Dreams from the Start 重生1977,开局娶白月光知青 Urban660k WordsCompleted If spring winds could pity the flowers, would you let me be young once more? Zhang Pan woke up to find himself back in 1977! As long-forgotten memories came alive, the young man faced a choice that would determine his fate. He would fight against the current... 545Reads7.4Score—Shelves
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  46. 496 Educated Youth: A Cozy Life in a Bygone Era 知青:穿越年代的温馨生活 Modern Romance491k WordsCompleted [System + transmigrate into a book + nurse + raising children + disabled male lead + villain + getting rich + 1970s] Wu Xiaoqin transmigrated into a book, becoming the disabled male lead’s ex-wife. The only time this ex-wife is mentioned in the book is when the male lead says her name after he’s arrested. She’s destined to die young. Wu Xiaoqin is stubborn. She refuses to believe in fate, and when she sees the poverty-stricken state of their home, she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work. Her p 29Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  47. 497 My Winter Flower 我的冬花 Modern Romance114k WordsOngoing My mother is an illiterate country woman, and she's sixty years old this year... I want to use my words to quietly write down, in a corner like this, all the things that have happened between my mother and me. Think of it as a place to pour my heart out! —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  48. 498 Hello, This Life 今生你好 Urban334k WordsOngoing The fortunate use their childhood to heal their whole lives; the unfortunate spend their whole lives healing their childhood. The novel Hello, This Life follows Chu Fan’s journey as he grows up, weaving together the many facets of life in Hanshan Village: the farce of Wang Laosi’s broken marriage, the Zhao doctor’s shattered family, and the warmth of the Chu brothers supporting one another. From hazy fragments of childhood memories to the conflicts and growth of youth, the story explores the st —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  49. 499 Transmigrate into a Book: Pregnant and on the Run in the 1970s, I’m Chased by a Cunning Young Officer 穿书年代带球跑,腹黑军少追妻忙 Modern Romance639k WordsCompleted Transmigrate Into a Book + Pocket Dimension + Superpowers + Medicine + Military Marriage + Both Pure + Golden Finger After the apocalypse’s strongest fighter, Yan Luoxue, died in battle, she transmigrated into a period novel as the male lead’s cannon-fodder ex-wife, a character barely mentioned in the story. The original owner was a brainless little cannon fodder with a miserable fate. Her father ignored her, her stepmother emotionally abused her, her scumbag fiancé schemed against her, and she 2.9kReads8.1Score221Shelves
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  50. 500 Our Long River of Years 我们的岁月长河 Modern Romance356k WordsCompleted Our Long River of Years is divided into three parts. Following the ordinary lives of three generations of Zhao Jiafu’s family, railway workers, it spans from the 1950s to the 2020s. It recounts the joys and sorrows, happiness and heartbreak, and everyday troubles experienced by the three generations of the Zhao family and the ordinary people around them over the long river of time. It depicts the turbulent lives of ordinary people as the times change and society develops. Time flows like a river 134Reads—Score—Shelves
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